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This is a true saying, and by all means worthy to be received, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
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If Miester Eckhart, St John of the Cross, or Pseudo Dionysus can't be considered one's who submitted their will to the divine
Then I haven't found anyone who has
We could’ve been eating so good. I can’t believe it’s all falling apart
🚨 Tyrese Haliburton has suffered a left hamstring strain and “will miss time,” with a timeline for his return yet to be determined, per @ShamsCharania.
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Yet it survives as an a priori theory, assumed to be how things must have happened, and so some still see everything through that lens. But without any clear foundation, such a priori theory becomes a wholly circular paradigm as it can only be argued for by being presupposed.
Jalid ♱ retweeted
History of scholarship on this question is illuminative imo, as it shows that the principal foundations of the strong 'Paul vs James conflict thesis' was based on flimsy evidence that with time has been undermined. It should have been discarded when its supposed foundation was.
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“Scepticism, then, is not avoidance of option; it is option of a certain particular kind of risk. Better risk loss of truth than chance of error, that is your faith-vetoer's exact position.
He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
To preach scepticism to us as a duty until 'sufficient evidence' for religion be found, is tantamount therefore to telling us, when in presence of the religious hypothesis, that to yield to our fear of its being error is wiser and better than to yield to our hope that it may be true.
It is not intellect against all passions, then; it is only intellect with one passion laying down its law. And by what, forsooth, is the supreme wisdom of this passion warranted? Dupery for dupery, what proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear?
I, for one, can see no proof; and I simply refuse obedience to the scientist's command to imitate his kind of option, in a case where my own stake is important enough to give me the right to choose my own form of risk.
If religion be true and the evidence for it be still insufficient, I do not wish, by putting your extinguisher upon my nature (which feels to me as if it had after all some business in this matter), to forfeit my sole chance in life of getting upon the winning side,-that chance depending, of course, on my Willingness to run the risk of acting as if my passional need of taking the world religiously might be prophetic and right.”
Jalid ♱ retweeted
Friends, in just two days, Christians were murdered on two continents.
On Friday, gunmen opened fire on a funeral at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Karak, Jordan, and killed nine people. On Saturday, armed men attacked Orthodox churches and homes in Oromia, Ethiopia, and killed more than forty.
These are not statistics. They are our brothers and sisters, members of the mystical Body of Christ. When Saul set out to destroy the Church, the risen Jesus asked him, “Why are you persecuting me?” The Lord is still being persecuted in these victims of anti-Christian violence.
Christianity is by far the most persecuted religion in the world today. Those of us who worship in comfort have to ask what the deaths of these martyrs demand of us. At the very least, they demand that we pray for them, learn their names, press our leaders to act, and refuse to look away.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
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Sadly, we have been informed that the number of martyrs from the terrorist attack on St George’s Church in Jordan has risen from 7 to 9.
We pray for our brothers who have borne witness to Christ through their martyrdom, as well as for the swift recovery of the injured.
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A few random thoughts.
Truth and goodness are related, but they aren’t the same question. *insert any religion* can teach much that is good and still be untrue in its distinctive claims. From a Christian point of view their unique claims are false, yet each can carry goodness.
Polemics has erased this dialectic. Polemicists aren’t content to show what is true and what is untrue. They insist that whatever is untrue must be necessarily and completely bad. That leaves the inquirer with a false choice: deny the obvious good in other faiths, or conclude that their goodness proves their truth. My conversion took a long time because Christian apologists painted every faith but their own as a demonic incursion. I just couldn’t accept that. Yes, your favourite apologists did more to keep me from Christ than bring me to him.
The goodness in other faiths isn’t an accident. Our Heavenly Father is merciful, and through the Logos, the true light that gives light to everyone (John 1:9), people everywhere can arrive at much of the same good. Both Jew and Greek.
I’m not saying all religions are equally valid paths to God. I’m not decided on the question of perennialism. But what it does show is that the good we find in other faiths points back to the one God who is its source, not to the truth of every claim made in his name. You can honour the first without accepting the second.
On a related note, & read on its own terms, the OT leaves open God’s promise of a king from David’s line while the NT ends awaiting Jesus’ return, not a final prophet
A few random thoughts.
Truth and goodness are related, but they aren’t the same question. *insert any religion* can teach much that is good and still be untrue in its distinctive claims. From a Christian point of view their unique claims are false, yet each can carry goodness.
Polemics has erased this dialectic. Polemicists aren’t content to show what is true and what is untrue. They insist that whatever is untrue must be necessarily and completely bad. That leaves the inquirer with a false choice: deny the obvious good in other faiths, or conclude that their goodness proves their truth. My conversion took a long time because Christian apologists painted every faith but their own as a demonic incursion. I just couldn’t accept that. Yes, your favourite apologists did more to keep me from Christ than bring me to him.
The goodness in other faiths isn’t an accident. Our Heavenly Father is merciful, and through the Logos, the true light that gives light to everyone (John 1:9), people everywhere can arrive at much of the same good. Both Jew and Greek.
I’m not saying all religions are equally valid paths to God. I’m not decided on the question of perennialism. But what it does show is that the good we find in other faiths points back to the one God who is its source, not to the truth of every claim made in his name. You can honour the first without accepting the second.
